---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education - Child Care Subsidies - Mandatory Funding Levels"
description: "Education - Child Care Subsidies - Mandatory Funding Levels"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 379"
citation: "Maryland SB 379 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Appropriations", "Child Care", "Reimbursement Rates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10c297f0-d60d-4e80-98bb-f35e6eae24d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB379&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "ffe57d72537b207677927c4f71dc68f1dcfaac56209008d5318a3a228eab70f9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 379 (2018) — Education - Child Care Subsidies - Mandatory Funding Levels

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0379f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **115–20** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {549937/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (44-3) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-27** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-28** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (115-20) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10c297f0-d60d-4e80-98bb-f35e6eae24d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).